This article originally appeared in InDesign Magazine #37, August/September 2010. Subscribe now!
Some designers use structured grid systems with guides on Master Pages to influence their layout decisions. Others rarely use formal grid systems at all. Yet all designers have the occasional need to arrange images in rows and columns, and for that, you need a grid. But how can you create a quick grid without resorting to subtraction and long division?
This article explains six ways to create grids in InDesign:
1. Step and Repeat
2. Distribute Guides
3. Create Guides Command
4. Make Grid/Add Guides scripts
5. Gridified Frame Creation
6. Gridified Place
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This article was last modified on November 3, 2010
This article was first published on November 3, 2010
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